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Originally Posted by dwig
For solid, reliable advice you need to talk to a copyright lawyer or lawyers (at least one for each country involved).
That said, note: - Being free and/or DRM-free has nothing to do with copyright. Allowing a work to be distributed free of charge in no way waves copyright nor does it grant any permission for further distribution unless expressly stated.
- Books, like many works, have multiple copyrights. The author's rights are for the words and the words only. Typography, artwork (cover or internal), binding treatment (if any), ... all have their own copyright, usually held by the publisher and/or artist. The words may be PD but the rest of the book may be copyrighted, possibly preventing any further/free distribution.
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DWIG imo you're quite right in your comments and observations, and it's obvious how simplistically Copyright can be considered if one were to think of the authors words as being the only intellectual property involved in the downloading of what otherwise is ostensibly a legal out of copyright download via a torrent stream or the like.
But what neither of us has alluded to - and what I'm wanting to hear discussion around is 'provenance'.
It seems to me that provenance of the original material that is being offered for download may be a major consideration as to the legal download of the author's words (leave out of the equation the metadata).
So, what do you think -is 'provenance' something that needs to be considered by the ordinary person in the street when contemplating an out of Copyright download of an author's words?